Hello Buffistas -

Don't know if someone already noted this, but the BlogFather (Glenn Reynolds) has a podcast interview with Tim Minear here.

Cross-posting to Minearverse.

Toasters continue to be earned. I showed the girl the first Firefly DVD this weekend and she's anxious to see the rest when we get together this coming weekend.

I didn't know there was a the girl! Rock!

Thanks. I've made some mutterings in Natter about it, but that's it.

I remembered your earlier rumblings, but then you posted a weekend update and didn't mention the girl, so I was afraid to ask. But, yay! She's still the girl, plus now Firefly-enabled!

I didn't? Huh. Guess I was distracted by talking about the swordfighting and forgot to mention the girl went along with me and was similarly entertained. But yes, time was spent with girl over weekend and it was good.

Yay Kalshane. Good on you AND the girl.

So much time has been spent with my new Fella (the L word has even come up...I'm so happy!) that I haven't been around to post about the Serenity RPG.

This weekend, we had our first real game. It was a riot. I've never RPGed before and didn't know what to expect. How fun is this!!

Fella is my captain...I'm a shepherd with a gambling problem. We both have super high overconfidence ratings. I defied an order...it was choice.

In the end, I saved the day by stampeding a flock of sheep into the town center of a community like the one in Safe. It was hilarious. And took the GM totally by surprise. Hee!

So, except for a very weird kerfuffle...in meatspace, first time for that in my 'verse...and some problems with hosting a pack-o-geekizoids in my house...I'm a converted Serenity RPGer.

Not sure I could do it in another game environment, but I'm so comfortable with the Firefly world, it was easy!

Thanks.

Glad you and your fella are doing well, and had fun with the Serenity RPG.

I'm tempted to buy it, but I'm afraid it will be yet another game that I would love to play but would have no idea how to run and would thus end up collecting dust on my shelf once I finished reading it.

You are inspiring, Beej. I've been looking at the RPG longingly, but am a complete novice, with only a few bad D&D experiences with my cousins (and I blame them), lo these many years ago.

I think I might even have folks I could drag in with Serenifly.

edited because commas are our friends.

Commas, they're good folk.

The GM for our particular game has had rpg experience, but not in a while. She was basically pulling it out of her hat...and did a great job.

She made up a scenario...had a list of options and then asked us to make choices and roll the di based on our answers. It seemed complex in that she had an entire map of the community drawn out (that she only showed us in bits with a rough drawn pen sketch as we moved through the options) but, beyond that, the ideas we brought to the table helped to shape the story.

Which was, that we landed on a planet to do some trade and were asked by a mining guild rep visiting the planet to help locate her assistant who had been kidnapped by a farming community (or was it the freaks in the hills? We chose farm and it worked out).

One option she offered was really clever. (All of them were clever, but this one was utilitarian too) We do not have a player assigned as a doctor, so she created an npc (?), non playing character that we had the option of collecting, if we chose to, at some point in the game. It worked a treat and really added to the suspense/creativity of the crew.

I'm mystified by all the mathiness of the GM's job, but I'm psyched about helping her to create interesting scenarios. And impressed by the way she incorporates each character's backstory (as limited as they are at the mo). Really cool stuff.